How do I add more info in cyclical queue implementation with single dimensional table?-CodePudding

I am supposed to implement a queue for 25 where each customer receives a number, a time of arrival and a full name. I'd understand how to do it if I could use a list but I'm supposed to use a one dimensional array for a cyclical queue for the implementation. My question is, how am I supposed to save multiple information in each customer ? Do I still need to create a seperate list ?

CodePudding user response：

how am I supposed to save multiple information in each customer ?

I think you want to create a blueprint/class for a customer to store all the related information.

class Customer {
    private String name;
    private int number;
    ...
    // setters, getters to store and retrieve information.
}

Do I still need to create a seperate list ?

No, you don't need to create a seperate list, you can create a list of Customer's like this

List<Customer> customers = new ArrayList<Customer>();

you might want to look at this for more info on CircularQueue

CodePudding user response：

how am I supposed to save multiple information in each customer ?

You should use struct. Take a look at this tutorial to understand Structures in C. Your struct can look something like this :

//each customer receives a number, a time of arrival and a full name.
struct customer {
   int num;
   int time;
   char name[100];
};

Do I still need to create a separate list?

No, you don't need a separate list for each of them. Once you have a struct defined, you should create a list of these structs.

struct customer customer_queue[25];